The Two Monkeys. An acrobat walking on a tightrope in a Southwark theatre is watched by two unimpressed monkeys in a box. A Black trumpeter blows a horn in the orchestra pit. After William Kent. Copperplate engraving by Wison after an illustration by William Kent from Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author, John Stockdale, London, 1793.

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